Nominating Committee | Members 2004

This page contains some background biographical information about each Nominating Committee member.

Members of the Committee

Bernard Aboba

Bernard Aboba holds a BA from Harvard College, MS and Ph.D. degrees
from Stanford University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He joined Microsoft
in 1994, starting up the MSN Internet Access Business. Since 1996 he has
worked in the Windows Networking group, where is currently an Architect
focusing on TCP/IP as well as network access technologies, including PPP
dialup, VPN, wireless, and RADIUS.

Bernard Aboba is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), IETF liaison to IEEE 802, and co-chair of the IETF AAA and EAP Working Groups. In 2000 he chaired the IETF Nomcom. He has also contributed to the IEEE 802.1X and IEEE 802.11i standards.

Bernard serves as a voting member of the Nominating Committee, selected
by the IETF.

Jose Luis Barzallo

José Luis Barzallo is an attorney with Barzallo
& Barzallo Peñaherrera, and a consultant at the BID Inter-American
Development Bank and the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property.
Consultant at the World Bank and the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations,
for the wording of the Ecuadorian electronic tax regulation; Consultant
at the Consejo Nacional de Telecomunicaciones CONATEL (National Council
of Telecommunications), for the wording of the Ecuadorian Electronic Law
Regulation; Co-author and coordinator of the Ecuadorian Law Project of
Electronic Commerce. He also teaches electronic commerce law in the master
degree, Competition Rights at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, and
at the doctor's degree level of the International University SEK and is
President of the Ecuadorian Association of Informatics Law and Telecommunications.
Barzallo also is a national and international lecturer at numerous seminars
and courses on electronic commerce.

Jean-Michel is a Senior Architect for Global
Media Online INC. (GMO) in Tokyo. He started his career in the early
1990's working for IBM as a Telecom engineer, and then as project leader
for Digital Equipement Corporation. He spent seven years working for the
European Telecom Standard Institue (ETSI) where he became the ETSI representative
in all the Internet bodies like CORE, RIPE, IETF and ICANN.

Jean-Jacques Damlamian is Special Advisor to the CEO of France
Telecom. From 2003-2004, he was Senior Vice President Corporate Technology
and Innovation in charge of the Group R&D activities, the Directorate
of Innovation and the Directorate of the Intellectual Property and Licensing.
From 1996 – 2002, he was Group Executive of the Development Branch, in
charge of Strategy, International Business Development, R&D and Information
Systems. During this period he was the sponsor of all the changes brought
by the Internet to the business of France Telecom: introducing high speed
internet (ADSL) in the offering portfolio, and using the Internet technologies
in all company processes.

From 1991 – 1995, he was Senior VP Marketing and Sales for France
Telecom. He established an organization based on product lines and
Market divisions, launched the ISP business of France Telecom and created
what later became Wanadoo. From 1989 – 1991, he was Group VP, International
and Industrial Affairs. Under his management, France Telecom established
strategic points of presence in the world and invested in overseas networks
(Telecom Argentina and Telmex in Mexico). From 1988 - 1989 He was VP Mobile
Services for France Telecom. He launched the GSM-network program (Itinéris),
a personal communication service.

Prior to 1988 he worked in various divisions in France Telecom (R&D
laboratory CNET, Local and Long Distance Networks Operations, Overseas
Networks) and at the headquarters as a Personal assistant to the Chief
Executive Officer.

Mr. Damlamian has served on the Bull
Board of Directors since 1996, the Palm
Board of Directors since 2000, and has been Chairman of the Eutelsat Supervisory
Board since 2001.

Jean-Jacques Damlamian graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (X61) and
the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications.
He is Recipient of the French Legion of Honour, the National Merit Order
and the "Palmes Académiques." He is also a Member of IEEE.

Mr. Damlamian serves as the non-voting Chair of the Nominating Committee,
appointed by the ICANN Board.

Alan Davidson

Alan Davidson is Associate Director at the Center
for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington D.C. non-profit group
working to promote civil liberties and human rights on the Internet and
other new digital media. He works broadly on issues relating to Internet
policy including free speech and censorship, copyright, and Internet governance.
Mr. Davidson's is currently leading a major new initiative at CDT focused
on the public interest issues surrounding copyright and digital rights
management.

This spring Mr. Davidson is a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. He is also
an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Communications, Culture,
and Technology Program.

Pavan Duggal, a practicing Advocate, Supreme
Court of India, is an internationally renowned expert and authority
on Cyberlaw and E-Commerce law. Pavan is President of Cyberlaws.Net, which
is Internet's first ever-unique Cyberlaw consultancy. He is President,
Cyberlaw Asia, Founder, The
Cyberlaw Association & Founder President, Cyberlaw India. He has been
a Member of Membership Advisory Committee and Membership Implementation
Task Force of ICANN. Pavan has been a consultant to UNCTAD and UNESCAP
on Cyberlaw and Cybercrime respectively. He is a member of AFACT Legal
Working Group of UN/CEFAT and has worked as an expert authority on a Cyberlaw
primer for e-ASEAN Task Force. He is on the Board of Experts of European
Commission’s Dr. E-Commerce. Pavan is also a member of the WIPO Arbitration
and Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals. Pavan is associated with Ministry
of Information Technology, Government of India on legal issues of Electronic
Governance and Data Protection. Pavan is a prolific writer and speaker
and has authored four books as well. He was a member of the 2003 ICANN
Nominating Committee.

Since November 2000 Grant has been a representative of the Business
Constituency on ICANN's DNSO (now GNSO) council and is also currently
a Council member of InternetNZ,
the delegated authority and policy body for the .nz ccTLD. As Manager
Industry & Regulatory Affairs, Grant is responsible for the development
and articulation of regulatory and public policy for TelstraClear
Ltd., New Zealand's second largest full service telecommunications
company and first competitive challenger to the privately owned ex-monopolist
incumbent. Prior to joining TelstraClear in 1998, he was for 5 years the
CEO of TUANZ, the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand.
This followed 13 years in the IT industry including periods of work in
the USA and UK. Grant has an MSCE from the University of Washington in
Seattle and an Executive MBA from the University of Auckland, NZ.

Hartmut Richard Glaser is Assistant Professor at the Escola Politécnica
(Engineering Faculty) of the University
of São Paulo since 1968.

He has been Coordinator of ".br Registry Services" and Coordinator
of Brazil’s NIR for IP addresses since 1996. He also serves as Director
(Treasurer) of LACNIC and AC/ASO Member for the LACNIC Region.

Rainer Händel works within the Siemens
Information and Communication Networks Group as a director of standards
coordination. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
He joined Siemens in 1978 where he was engaged in software development
for switching systems, in concepts and standardisation of broadband networks,
and in the analysis of the liberalisation und deregulation of telecommunication
markets. From October 1994 till the end of 1995 he was a member of the
Planning Board of the German
Foreign Office in Bonn (with a focus on the societal impact of new
information and communication technologies). He has been an active member
of several international standardisation organisations such as ITU and
ETSI for a long time and is the author of several technical articles and
a book on broadband networking.

Rainer Händel participated in the preparation and execution of the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as the German industry
representative. During the WSIS process the subject of Internet governance,
which includes the current and future role of ICANN, has appeared as one
of the most contentious issues to be resolved till WSIS II in 2005. To
this aim, many institutions are contributing, for example the International
Chamber of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on Internet Governance and the
UN ICT Task Force.

R. Händel is a member of the ICC Advisory Committee; he also participated
in, and submitted a paper to, the recent UN ICT Task Force Global Forum
on Internet Governance.

He served as Chairman of RARE WG 1 (on MHS) - (RARE was later reorganized
into TERENA), the NORDUNET
MHS WG and the IETF X.400 Operations
WG.

From 1991 Alf was employed as Operational Manager in UNINETT A/S, and
in 1999 he became the first Director of UNINETT FAS A/S. The Norid ccTLD
function was hosted by UNINETT FAS until summer 2003 where UNINETT
Norid A/S was established as a not-for-profit limited company. Alf
has been member of the CENTR
Executive Committee since 2001.

Alf serves as a voting member of the Nominating Committee, selected by
the ccNSO.

In 2001 she participated in the international NGO
and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS) group which was formed to explore
public participation in ICANN. In 2000 she was a member nominated candidate
for the ICANN election.

She has done research on the IETF and the development of IPv6, on ICANN
and the DNS. At present she leads a study on ENUM.

George McLaughlin is the Director of International Developments for AARNet
(Australia’s Academic and Research Network). He joined AARNet in 1995
initially overseeing the sale of AARNet’s commercial customer base to
Telstra, Australia’s dominant telecommunications carrier. In 1997, he
managed the process of establishing AARNet2, the second generation national
network connecting Australia’s universities and research organisations.
He guided the establishment of AARNet Pty Ltd as a separate legal entity
(with its own carrier licence) responsible for managing and developing
the AARNet network; and has since been the driver for positioning AARNet
as one of the leading research and education network organisations.

George has been instrumental in establishing international connectivity
from Australia to the global R&E networks. Starting with an indefeasible
right to use on a 155Mbps circuit between Australia, Hawaii and the US
West coast in 2001, to the recently announced dual 10Gbps circuits (SX
TransPORT – Trans-Pacific Optical Research Testbed). He has served on
various national and international committees associated with telecommunications
and advanced networking and has been recognized for his contributions
to advancing telecommunications in Australia as recipient in 2003 of both
the ATUG Chairman’s award and the Sir Ernest Fisk award.

George was invited by the European Commission to be an independent expert
evaluator for the advanced networks of the EU Sixth Framework Program.
He is one of only two non-US members of the International Committee of
the Board of Internet2. He is
a member of the Pacific North West Gigapop Advisory Council (Seattle);
the Asia Pacific Advanced Network’s (APAN) Backbone Committee; and is
currently Vice President of the Asia Pacific
Advanced Network Consortium (APAN).

George is a graduate of the former Royal Institute of Chemistry. He has
worked in the chemical, pharmaceutical, engineering, precious metal and
information technology industries, has authored more than 50 research
papers, and has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Ram Mohan

Ram Mohan is Vice President, Business Operations & Chief Technical
Officer of Afilias
Limited. At Afilias, Ram is charged with managing all of Afilias’
technical operations which support the generic top-level domains (gTLDs)
.INFO and .ORG, in addition to a number of country code domains.

With Ram’s guidance, Afilias was the first to implement an XML-based
"thick" registry running on the new Extensible Provisioning
Protocol (EPP), and was the first to complete the largest transition of
a domain registry when it successfully transitioned .ORG from VeriSign
Global Registry Services on behalf of the .ORG registry operator, the
Public Interest Registry.

Before joining Afilias in September 2001, Ram was at Infonautics Corp.,
a pioneering online database and content distribution company. He has
held various leadership positions at Infonautics, including Interim COO,
CTO and VP, Product Marketing. Ram is the founder of the award-winning
CompanySleuth product, and created the Sleuth line of business at Infonautics.
He helped architect Electric
Library, the United States' most used online reference database in
schools and libraries, and Encyclopedia.com,
the first free encyclopedia on the Internet. Prior to joining Infonautics,
Ram worked with First Data Corporation, Unisys Corporation and KPMG Peat
Marwick in a variety of leadership, engineering and technology positions.

Ram’s educational background reflects his belief that technology is best
used for business advantage and market leadership. He has a Bachelor’s
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mangalore, an
MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from Bharathidasan University, and is
completing a second Master’s in Computer Science at Philadelphia’s Drexel
University.

Ram has been active in the ICANN community, serving on the Redemption
Grace Period (RGP) implementation task force, the GNSO WHOIS task force,
the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) registry implementation committee,
and the 2003 ICANN Nominating Committee. Ram is a member of the ICANN
Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), which is an ICANN Board
advisory committee comprised of Internet pioneers and technical experts
including operators of Internet root servers, registrars, and TLD registries.
In 2003, Ram was named one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 under
40. Ram also serves on the Board of the Philadelphia-based Metropolitan
Career Center, serves on the advisory boards of several Philadelphia-area
startup companies, and is actively involved in cancer-related nonprofits.

Ram serves as a voting member of the Nominating Committee, selected by
the gTLD Registries Constituency
of the Generic Names Supporting Organization.

Simbo Ntiro

Simbo Ntiro is a management consultant at WorldAhead Consulting Network,
and an independent management consultant focused on digital opportunities
for Tanzania’s development. He is a DOT Force alumni and participates
in the UN ICT Task Force and is active on a number of working groups implementing
the Genoa Plan of Action and supporting achieving the UN’s MDGs. In addition,
he is part of the Tanzania technical team that prepared its involvement
in the Geneva WSIS event in December 2003 having attended PrepCom3. He
is a member Tanzania’s Ministry of Communications and Transport National
ICT Task Force that drafted the first National ICT Policy, and the Implementation
Task Force that is now preparing implementation plans for the National
ICT Policy that was approved by Cabinet in March 2003.

Simbo is acknowledged as an influential expert on matters pertaining
to "e", ICT for Development and the digital divide. He is also a founder
member of Tanzania’s eThink Tank
(with over 480 members), a focal point for ICT and development issues
in Tanzania. He also manages a number of other discussion fora related
to ICT and development. He sits on a number of steering committees of
ongoing ICT projects being executed by various entities. He is the founding
Vice Chairman of the Tanzanian Chapter of the Information Systems Audit
and Control Association (ISACA). He is also a contributing author to a
book project for the University of Maryland focused on the Tanzanian Case
Study entitled "Negotiating the Net – Diffusion of the Internet."

He sits on the Board of Directors of SchoolNet
Africa, a pan-African NGO headquartered in South Africa and is on
the Finance Committee of the Board. SchoolNet Africa is charged with continent-wide
interventions in the education system focused on deploying ICT to improve
learning systems and is currently in negotiations with NEPAD to become
the implementing agency for NEPAD’s eSchools Initiative. Simbo is a member
of the Consultative Group of Experts Committee established by NEPAD’s
eAfrica Commission.

Adam works at the Center
for Global Communications (GLOCOM), a research institute located in
Tokyo. Adam has been living in Japan since 1989 and joined GLOCOM in April
1993. His interests are the intersection of public policy and the Internet,
and promoting information and communication technologies in society.

Adam participated in the G8 DOT Force where GLOCOM was the Japanese NPO
representative. Adam has co-led GLOCOM's work on the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), including GLOCOM's role as facilitator of
NGO/Civil Society participation in the Asia and Pacific Regional WSIS
Conference, January 2003. He is a coordinator of the WSIS
Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, and a member of the Public
Interest Registry Advisory Council.

Before coming to Japan, Adam was employed at British Telecom as a project
manager working on the interconnection of Other Licensed Operators (cellular
radio, radio paging and competitive telephony carriers.)

Mike Roberts was the first President and CEO of ICANN, serving from 1998
to 2001. Previously he was a founder and the first Director of the Internet2
project in the United States. His professional career has been in
computing and networking in higher education in the United States, where
he has been widely published and has served in management and as a Director
of many non-profit organizations associated with the Internet.

Ellen B. Shankman, Esq. has
more than twenty years of experience practicing Trademark and Intellectual
Property Law. Formerly a partner and the head of the trademark department
with one of the largest intellectual property firms in Israel, Ms. Shankman
specializes in global branding, trademark and trade name counseling, including
the development and management of international trademark portfolios for
technology and other companies. She represents the administrative body
responsible for Domain Name allocation under the .IL ccTLD and contributed
the section on Israel Trademark and Internet Law, as well as the chapter
on ccTLDs for the International Trademark
Association's ("INTA") book Trademark Law &
the Internet. Ms. Shankman has also authored the section on Israel
Trademark and Internet Law in Domain Names: Global Practice and
Procedure published by Sweet & Maxwell.

Ms. Shankman is Vice-Chair of the prestigious INTA Internet Committee,
which has been instrumental in defining the legal issues associated with
the Internet and e-business, and she has served as a member of INTA's
Emerging Issues Subcommittee. Ms. Shankman recently completed her tenure
as a member of the Policy Council of the Generic Domain Name Supporting
Organization of ICANN (formerly the Names Council) representing the Intellectual
Property Constituency, which works to formulate policy and consensus regarding
domain name governance on the Internet. She is the recipient of the 2002
INTA’s first-ever Volunteer Service Award for the Advancement of the Association
for her work in the Internet area.

Ellen B. Shankman is admitted to practice before the Israel, New York,
Massachusetts and Maryland Courts, as well as before the U.S. Federal
and Supreme Courts. She practiced law in the U.S. as a litigator before
immigrating to Israel in 1986.

Antonio Tavares lives in São Paulo, Brasil. Owner of an ISP company
since 1993, Tavares is the ISP representative to the Brazilian
Internet Steering Committee, a national council named by the government
of Brazil for local Internet governance. He has been a founder and President
of ABRANET, the National Association
of ISPs for 5 years, and remains a member of its Superior Council. Previously,
Tavares worked for VIA
NET.WORKS for 3 years, living in the USA.

Christopher Wilkinson was born in Fujian, China in 1941. After returning
to England in 1951 he was educated in Yorkshire and at Cambridge University,
where he took degrees in Natural Science and Economics. He studied management
at the London Business School (1971) and international relations at Harvard
(1982-83). He has taught economics in London (1962-63), European Integration
in Lisbon (1980-81) and industrial economics at the College of Europe,
Bruges (1989-90). He speaks French and Spanish.

Following a career with the Commonwealth Secretariat, OECD and the World
Bank, including periods living in Madrid and Lagos, he joined the European
Commission as Head of Division in 1973. There, he managed several Divisions
dealing with regional development, industrial policy and international,
economic and technological aspects of the information society. He participated
in the first EU exploratory missions on science and technology cooperation
to Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union (1990). He led the European
Commission delegation to the ITU World Radio Conference (1992).

Since 1996, as Adviser in the Directorate General for Information Society
(DG XIII), he has been closely associated with the reform of the DNS and
the creation of ICANN and GAC. In 1998 he was nominated in his personal
capacity by the Internet Society as a member of the Policy Oversight Committee
(POC) of the gTLD MOU.

IIn his capacity as Head of the GAC Secretariat, Mr. Wilkinson has been
designated to serve as the GAC's non-voting liaison to the Nominating
Committee.

As the previous Chair of the ICANN Nominating Committee, Linda is a non-voting
member of the 2004 Nominating Committee, serving as Advisor.

Pindar Wong

Pindar Wong is Chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd., an Internet infrastructure
consultancy. Since co-founding Hong Kong's first licensed Internet Service
Provider (ISP) in 1993, Pindar has remained actively involved with helping
to develop and promote the Internet in the Asia Pacific region.

He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society,
the technical advisory board of the Packet Clearing House, the international
advisory boards of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme,
the advisory board of CDT's Global Internet Policy Initiative and the
editorial advisory board of Cisco System's Internet Protocol Journal.
Pindar is also an Associate member of the Orbicom Network (the international
network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications). He is Chairman of the Island
School Council.

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